Abstract: A connector including a shield case including a first shell and a second shell, a body housed in the shield case, and a terminal held by the body. The first shell includes a connecting portion of tuboid shape extending in a first direction, and a cover extending in the first direction contiguously from the connecting portion. The second shell is a separate member from the first shell and attached to the cover. The second shell and the cover constitute a composite tube extending in a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction, or in an oblique direction, which includes components of the first and second directions. The terminal includes a first portion, which extends in the first direction and is disposed inside the connecting portion, and a second portion, which extends in the second direction or the oblique direction and is disposed inside the composite tube.

Abstract: A multi-directional operation switch that can be miniaturized is provided. The multi-directional operation switch includes an operation rod that is rotatable about an operation rod axis, and is also tiltable. The operation rod has an inner end portion inserted in a hole in a circuit substrate, and a slider, which operates in conjunction with an operation of the operation rod, is provided on the inner end portion. The slider has a movable contact. The circuit substrate has a plurality of fixed contacts that are brought into contact with, and are electrically connected to, the movable contact when the slider rotates or slides.

Abstract: A contact including a first connectable part, a second connectable part, and a middle part. The first connectable part includes a tube or plate. The plate has a cross section generally of U-shape, V-shape, C-shape, or L-shape. The tube or the plate includes a base and a first wall. The first wall extends from a first end portion of the base. The middle part includes a base and a first sloped portion. The base of the middle part is contiguously connected between the base of the first connectable part and the second connectable part. The first sloped portion is contiguously connected between the first wall and a first end portion of the second connectable part. The first sloped portion extends from a first end portion of the base of the middle part such that the first sloped portion slopes down toward the first end portion of the second connectable part.

Abstract: In a contactless power supply mechanism, a power receiving unit for supplying power to an electric device includes a secondary coil and a power supplying unit for supplying power to the power receiving unit includes a primary coil. The primary coil includes a primary core formed of magnetic material and a length of winding wire wounded around the primary core. The secondary coil includes a bar-shaped secondary core formed of magnetic material, a length of winding wire wounded around the secondary core and a magnetic sheet attached to at least one of end faces of the secondary core. The magnetic sheet includes a close-contact portion placed in close-contact with the end face of the secondary core and a curved portion which extends outwards from the close-contact portion beyond an outer edge of the end face and whose normal line has a portion un-parallel with an axial direction of the secondary core.

Abstract: A connector includes a shell that has a cylindrical shape and includes a body portion and a leg portion, the body portion being connected to a shell of the other connector, a ground plate that is a conductor plate, a claw that has a structure in which part of the ground plate is raised in a connector connection direction so as to have a strip-shaped tip and the tip supports the leg portion of the shell, and a case made of an insulator, the case to which the shell and the ground plate are to be attached. The case includes a plate-like base portion, a slit that is provided in one surface of the base portion, the slit into which the leg portion is to be inserted, and a groove that is provided in the other surface of the base portion, the groove into which the claw is to be inserted.

Abstract: A breath component measurement apparatus includes a breath residence case. The breath residence case includes a container in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, an intake pipe in the shape of a circular tube which is provided at the center of a front face of the container, a pump which is formed over the whole right side surface of the container, a sensor storage unit in the shape of a circular tube which is provided at the center of a bottom surface of the container, a gas sensor which has the shape of a circular column and is stored in the sensor storage unit, a disk-shaped piezoelectric element which is supported by a groove in a slot, the slot that is formed on a left side surface of the container and has the groove supporting the piezoelectric element, and an exhaust port.

Abstract: A male connector includes a male body and a male conductor. The male body includes an outer face including a first curved surface and a housing space on an inner side of the first curved surface of the male body. The male conductor is provided inside the housing space and includes a functional part. The functional part is a male communication antenna, a male power-transmission antenna, or a male power-reception antenna. A female connector includes a female body and a female conductor. The female body includes a connection hole, an inner wall surface of the connection hole, the inner wall surface including a first curved surface, a housing space on an outer side of the first curved surface of the connection hole of the female body. The female conductor is provided inside the housing space and includes a functional part. The functional part is a female communication antenna, a female power-reception antenna, or a female power-transmission antenna.

Abstract: A connector including a body, an adjacent pair of first terminals, a second terminal next to one of the first terminals, a third terminal next to the other first terminal, and a fourth terminal. The body holds the terminals at least partially and includes a first recess, a second recess, and a first separating portion therebetween. The first and third terminals each have a portion exposed through the first recess. The fourth terminal has a portion exposed through the second recess. The second terminal includes an exposed portion and an unexposed portion. The unexposed portion includes an area on one side in the first direction of a part in the second direction of the second terminal and is covered with the body. The exposed portion includes an area on the other side in the first direction of the part of the second terminal and is exposed through the first recess.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector including a thermal protection circuit which detects abnormal heating to cut off the power supply. The connector (200) of the invention has: a cover portion (21); a plug portion (22); and a printed circuit board (27). The thermal protection circuit includes: an FET (34) which is inserted in a power supply line of a printed circuit board; and a temperature switch IC (33) which detects a temperature, and which, when the detected temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature, outputs an abnormal heating signal for causing the FET to cut off the power supply line. The connector includes a metal bonding member (360) which thermally couples a metal shell (25) to the temperature switch IC (33). The connector in which power supply can be cut off with high sensitivity with respect to abnormal heating in a plug portion is provided.

Abstract: Provided is an inexpensive and compact optical transmission module having high coupling efficiency between an optical fiber and a light projecting element and/or a light receiving element. This optical transmission module includes a lead frame including an electric wiring pattern formed therein, a resin housing formed through insert-molding of the lead frame, and an electric device mounted on the lead frame and including a light projecting element for photoelectric conversion. The lead frame forms a slit positioning an optical fiber to be coupled and a reflection mirror reflecting and condensing light from the light projecting element to the optical fiber.

Abstract: A terminal box includes three or more terminal strips to which output lines of a solar cell module are connected and a box body having an accommodating portion for accommodating the three or more terminal strips. The box body includes inlet holes formed in a face of the box body opposing to the solar cell module and configured for allowing insertion of the output lines corresponding respectively to the three or more terminal strips. The three or more terminal strips include at least two first terminal strips of a same polarity and at least one second terminal strip insulated from the first terminal strips and having the opposite polarity to that of the first terminal strips. The two first terminal strips are electrically connected via a connecting portion disposed on a back face side of the second terminal strip disposed between and aside the two first terminal strips.

Abstract: A plug connector including a connecting member, a cable, and a shield case. The cable includes a signal transmission part connected to the connecting member. The shield case includes first and second shells and a first retainer. The first and second shells are combined together in a first direction so as to form a tube at least partially covering the connecting member and the signal transmission part. The first shell has an end face on one side of a second direction. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The first retainer is a tube or half tube for retaining the cable. The first retainer is provided on the second shell so as to be located on the one side of the second direction relative to the end face of the first shell and in contact with at least a part of the end face of the first shell.

Abstract: Provided is a compact secondary coil module that can be easily mounted in a terminal device side unit. The secondary coil module whose power for use in charging a storage battery by a contactless charging technique is supplied via a primary coil, includes the storage battery, a charging control circuit controlling charging of the storage battery, a tubular core made of magnetic material and covering an outer circumferential face of at least one of the storage battery and the charging control circuit, and a wire made of conductive material, the wire being connected to the charging control circuit and wound around the outer circumferential face of the core.